Radical Centrist, My Arse

As to the first, anyone arguing seriously for the rise of a third-party in the post-Citizens United era needs to have a hose turned on them until they calm down. What you will get is a new plutocrat's party of plutocrats to jostle around with the two plutocrat parties that we already have. And if jacking around with Social Security (the promises of which are not "unfunded" as far as the nearest event horizon) and Medicare are the only things you cite about government spending to cement your bona fides as a "radical centrist" — coughIraqandAfganistancough — then you're not one. You're pretty much a Republican. I'm sorry if some of the footwashers in that party make you nervous, but that's the way it goes.

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As to the second really bad idea, well, the Tea Party, a wholly owned subsidiary of the more blatantly plutocratic of our two existing parties, doesn't know enough about the current Constitution to throw to a cat, and I, for one, am not prepared to exchange the work of Madison and the rest of them for this guy's ideas. Klaatu barada nikto.